Things To Do This Week, Through September 17: District 13 Rezoning Town Halls, Oysters 101, And Sunset Yoga

Below you’ll find information on events through the week in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill this weekend. Check back Thursday to see what’s scheduled this weekend!

For family-friendly and kids events, see this week’s (through September 15) Kid Calendar.

Submit your event listing to our BROOKLYN-WIDE CALENDAR or by emailing editor@bklyner.com.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15

Ask a Tech
When: Tuesday, September 15 at 11am
Where: Bedford Library at 496 Franklin Avenue
What: Learn about computer hardware and software. Learn how to use the mouse, search the library website. Surf the internet and setup an email address.

Free Movie: “True Story”
When: Tuesday, September 15 at 2pm
Where: Clinton Hill Library at 380 Washington Avenue
What: Drama, mystery, thriller – Rated R – Starring James Franco, Jonah Hill & Felicity Jones – running time 99 minutes.

Photo by JessicaGale.

Free Resume Clinic
When: Tuesday, September 15 from 6-7:30pm
Where: Clinton Hill Library at 380 Washington Avenue
What: Free drop-in resume assistance with our community volunteer: No appointment necessary Bring your resume with you or ask for help creating one Brush up on your interviewing techniques Assistance with LinkedIn and other social media account. 

Yoga for Adults
When: Tuesday, September 15 from 6:30-7:30pm
Where: Clinton Hill Library at 380 Washington Avenue
What: Practice yoga with local yoga instructor, Jenine Osborn. All levels welcome. Limit of 10-12 per class. Mats will be provided.

BRIC FLIX: Yak Films
When: Tuesday, September 15 from 7-9pm
Where: BRIC House Stoop at 647 Fulton Street
What: Join Kash of YAKfilms.com for a presentation and screening of street dance shorts which feature both global sites as well as Brooklyn locations (DUMBO, East River, Williamsburg, Fort Greene, etc.) To further showcase new street styles and dancers, we will also feature special live performances before a Q & A with all involved.

Fiction Book Group: “A Tale for the Time Being”
When: Tuesday, September 15 at 7:30pm
Where: Greene Grape Annex at 753 Fulton Street
What: For September, the group discusses A Tale for the Time Beingfrom bestselling author Ruth Ozeki, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there’s only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates’ bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who’s lived more than a century. A diary is Nao’s only solace, and will touch lives in ways she can scarcely imagine. Across the Pacific, we meet Ruth, a novelist living on a remote island who discovers a collection of artifacts washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchbox possibly debris from the devastating 2011 tsunami. As the mystery of its contents unfolds, Ruth is pulled into the past, into Nao’s drama and her unknown fate, and forward into her own future.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16

Photo courtesy of Brooklyn Grange.

Brooklyn Grange Farm Tour
When: Wednesday, September 16 from 10-11am & 11:30am-12:30pm
Where: Brooklyn Grange — Meet at BLDG 92 at 63 Flushing Avenue
What: Come check out the world’s largest rooftop farm in Brooklyn’s Navy Yard!  We’ll tell you about our daily operations and farming methods, the basics of our business model, and the environmental benefits of urban ag and rooftop farming, then give you some time to explore.
How much: $10

DIY: Knitting and Crocheting Club
When: Wednesday, September 16 at 5pm
Where:  Bedford Library at 496 Franklin Avenue
What: Learn basic knitting and crocheting skills. Please bring your own needle and yarn.

CEC District 13 Town Hall
When: Wednesday, September 16 from 6-8pm
Where: PS 307 at 209 York Street
What: Staff from the DOE’s Office of District Planning will do a short presentation on their proposed rezoning scenario, and will then remain on hand for questions. CEC members will be in attendance at both meetings. Everyone is welcome at either meeting. However, those parents who are allied with their respective schools are likely to be the primary focus of each town hall, to ensure that all voices and perspectives are heard. A second town hall will be on September 21 at PS 8 in Brooklyn Heights.

Image via Brooklyn Grange.

Oysters 101
When: Wednesday, September 16 from 6-8pm
Where: Brooklyn Grange Farm at the Navy Yard at Flushing and Carlton Avenues
What: Oyster garden and oyster tasting with Billion Oyster Project (BOP). Participants in this event will experience what it is to be a student during a BOP oyster monitoring event.  You’ll hear an explanation of the restoration process and how BOP is growing oysters in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.  You’ll get a chance to measure live oysters, test water quality parameters and identify some of the hundreds of other organisms growing on and in the oyster cages. From the oyster garden we’ll head back up to the farm for an oyster tasting, where we’ll teach you how to shuck and explore the complex and nuanced flavor profiles of different varieties.
How much: $52.74

Trivia Night
When: Wednesday, September 16 from 8-11pm
Where: Putnam’s Pub at 419 Myrtle Avenue
What: Weekly trivia competition to win gift cards of $100 to Putnam’s. Beer specials all night.
How much: Free

Trivia Wednesdays
When: Wednesday, September 16 at 9pm
Where: Moot Bar at 579 Myrtle Avenue
What: Inaugural trivia night! Five rounds of 10 questions each on variety of subject matter from cereal box characters to physics. Winning team gets $50 off their bar tab.
How much: Free

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17

Vertical Thursday Wine Tasting
When: Thursday, September 17 from 5:30-8pm
Where: Corkscrew Wines at 489 Myrtle Avenue
What: Free weekly wine tasting. Educational and casual to explore specific grapes or a region. Discover what makes your favorite wines unique. You are the expert of what works for you, Corkscrew is here for you to discover what that is.

Sunset Yoga
When: Thursday, September 17 from 7-8pm
Where: Lakeside Prospect Park at 171 East Drive
What: Stretch out the last few hours of the day and join us Thursdays this fall for yoga movements guided by progressive house beats, trance, and ambient music. Breathe deep, listen, and watch as the sun sets over Prospect Park Lake with Abhaya Yoga.

B-Side: 7FN
When: Thursday, September 17 from 7:30-9pm
Where: BRIC TV Studio at 647 Fulton Street
What: Join BRIC TV for a live in-studio performance and interview with 7FN. 7FN is a collaboration between Shayshahn “Phearnone” MacPhearson and Len Johnson, a subsidiary of the Brooklyn-based band Planet Ubiquity. Pulling from a culturally diverse background of West African drumming, classical violin, hip-hop, rock, jazz, house, Afro-beat, salsa, and R&B Shay and Len have molded a gumbo-like contemporary sound that is socio-culturally insightful, clever, and traverses classification.
How much: FREE, but RSVP

Image via Greenlight Bookstore.

Book Reading with Carmiel Banasky
When: Thursday, September 17 at 7:30pm
Where: Greenlight Bookstore at 686 Fulton Street
What: In Carmiel Banasky’s debut novel The Suicide of Claire Bishop, a 1950s Greenwich Village housewife and a present-day schizophrenic find their fates inextricably linked by a mysterious painting as they both battle mental illness, issues with family, love, and the true nature of reality. Colum McCann writes of the book “Daring, precise, and linguistically acrobatic, this novel brings a history of America alive, from the war protests in the sixties to turn-of-the-21st-century art theft.” Banasky talks with McCann about her new book at this exclusive Brooklyn event.

Comedy Thursdays
When: Thursday, September 17 from 7:30-10pm
Where: Splitty at 415 Myrtle Avenue
What: Greg Johnson and Larry Murphy (Bob’s Burgers) host this weekly comedy show featuring a curated night of stand-up, characters, and the unexpected.
How much: $5 cover

Function Thursdays Live Music
When: Thursday, September 10 at 9pm
Where: Putnam’s Pub at 419 Myrtle Avenue
What: Jessica Mahasin and DJs Jeff Haze/Asen James
How much: Free